Report urges U.S. open door to China investment flood

Doug Palmer
Reuters
May 4, 2011

Tens of billions of dollars of Chinese investment could flood into the United States in the next decade, creating a multitude of American jobs if officials do not succumb to a political backlash and throw up barriers, according to a report released on Wednesday.

The study forecast Chinese companies would unleash some $1 trillion to $2 trillion in new greenfield investments or mergers and acquisitions around the world by 2020.

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That would be a four- to eight-fold increase of China’s current outward investment of about $230 billion, according to the report done for the Asia Society, the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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This article was posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 10:23 am

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